It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

she was going to get mini sandwiches today” “Oh! We should get some too!” “Yeah!” Ugh. The girls and their annoying squeal make me want to pound my fucking head into the wall. Oh sorry, excuse my language, a 15-year-old girl like me can’t be cursing right? I suppose it’s too inappropriate. Shall I also lift up my pinky when drinking tea or keep…

because it defines who I am as a person. I currently work at Baptist South as a Certified Nursing Assistant on a stroke and cardiac floor. Most of the patients we get can either number one not move because of a stroke, or number two are already on their death beds just waiting to go to Hospice. They’re scared and so are their families, questions are endless and it’s back breaking work moving stroke patients but I never let my compassion falter instead I show more. Having experience the true…

it comes to living donors of kidney each year I learned from her it is “about 40.” I also know that O negative is the hardest match to find with organs and person's blood type. She states that “In our region, blood type A wait time is the shortest.” Also apparently, there is basically a place in New England that helps people with finding organs they need. It called the New England Donor Services. Laura, the community and development coordinator for 7 years at the place describes UNOS as this…

social media; from Hollywood and the creators of these lovely outlets. Social media has skyrocketed in the late 2000’s thanks to a huge advancement in technology. While I enjoy Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram, I can also admit that it is the root for most of our problems. Social media has opened a door to unlimited access of communication to every corner of the world. In the beginning, intentions for social media were good, but quickly turned bad. Thanks to social media all teenagers are more…

disease that deals with memory loss so that means it’s not something temporary. When dementia was first discovered? Frau Auguste D. was credited of the discovery of dementia in 1906. He found out about dementia and tested this disease and made his final statement that this disease is connected to memory loss or Alzheimer’s. This disease is not a thing that happens in one country and it is not contagious. Dementia is a global health crisis. It’s not a virus that can spread but it can happen to…

who decides to form a friendship with her mother's fiancé’s daughter, Brooke (Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the screenplay), who is more worldly, eccentric, adventurous, and knowledgeable about things than she is. That's about the entirety of the plot. Most of the film sees Tracy and Brooke head to a location, make witty observations about where they are, and then move on. There are a couple of subplots, and the main trajectory sees Brooke trying to start a restaurant business and Tracy trying to…

associate the country with violence and drugs, but I see a beautiful country full of love and peace. A country I call home and a country trying to move on from all those stereotypes. A country that opens me with its open arms and a country that when it's time to leave makes me cry. When I think of Colombia I imagine the enormous green mountains, the tall funky shaped buildings at the bottom of the valley, cows and horses on the road, the clear cloudless blue sky and the bright sun beating down…

and is not too demanding. As a section leader, I will dedicate my time to my section's improvement. I would assist people who need it; to be section leader also means that I have to aid the Drum Majors and the band director in keeping order and making sure everyone knows what they are doing. My first year in the band was extra special for me because my section leaders made it that way, and I tried to make the rookies’ first year in the band just as special by trying to be a good leader.…

Healthy, or a Hype? Humans and food have always had an affair with one another and lately it’s been more of a love-hate relationship and a complicated one at that. Our lives evolve around a constant changing world, the food we grow, buy, cook, and eat are much different that it was years ago. Michael Pollan’s article published in The New York Times Magazine, “Unhappy Meals,” reveals why something as simple as the consumption of food is complex. Society has shifted from eating ‘real food’ to…

through the way of militaristic gains, losing the cities of Boston, New York City, and most recently Philadelphia to the Redcoats. Because of these hardships on the battlefield, the Continental Army had trouble keeping its soldiers enlisted. Contracts only ran for one year, and many decided to refrain from renewing their contracts, especially this frigid year. With hindsight in play, it is perfectly wonderful to understand the decision to stay in the army given the knowledge that the Colonists…